Art at the Gleason
Current exhibit
Recent exhibits
Every two months the Art at the Gleason welcomes new exhibitions
to the Gleason Public Library. The exhibits include photography,
illustrations, drawings, interactive art, paintings, and works on
fabric, among others.
In addition, Art at the Gleason features an annual student art
show in the fall in cooperation with the Carlisle School elementary
visual arts department.
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Photographs from The Year of Jumpingboy
January 7 – February 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12, 2–4 pm
sponsored by The Friends of The Gleason Public Library
The jumpingboy project consisted of a photo a day every day from January 1 through December 31, 2006, selected from among those we took each day. We took from 1 to over 150 photos on any given day, an average of 30 per day, so Aaron jumped over 10,000 times in 2006. For each of the photographs in the exhibit, we will include data about how many exposures were needed and which exposure was the one we chose as the best. There will also be some "outs" showing the process of a few days' shoots. We set ourselves some simple rules: All photos were vertical and no photo could be carried over to another day. Although most of the photographs were taken by Aaron's dad, David Freedman, the project was truly collaborative, with both of us consulting on locations and poses. We selected the best each day and posted it online at www.jumpingboy.com. When Aaron was at summer camp and in England for a school trip, he was responsible for keeping the streak alive, whether using a self-timer or having someone else click the shutter. About two thirds of the more than 40 photographs in the exhibit were taken in Carlisle, including Great Brook and Carlisle Pines State Parks, the Transfer Station, Green Cemetery, and Vivian's Place behind Town Hall. The exhibit also includes a wonderful poster showing all 365 images and one photograph taken during a cross-country trip this past summer. It was taken outside Amarillo, Texas at the Cadillac Ranch, and is the only horizontal image in the exhibit.
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